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How Did Marathon Swimming Get Into The Olympics? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How did open water swimming get into the Olympic Games? It all started with a simple lunch gazing out over the horizon across the Indian Ocean. In a scene that can be immortalized by a Hollywood movie, three passionate open water […]
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The family, friends and fans’ support of the Olympic marathon swimmers was overwhelming in London. Many groups were colorfully outfitted in specially designed shirts or hats, and many wove their country flags in support of their favorite athletes. There was Team Lurz of Germany, And Team Kida of Japan, And Team Mellouli of Tunisia, And
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The Olympic marathon swim is being filmed from many different angles and is an improvement over the television production of open water swimming from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. One innovation that is being used at the Serpentine is the use of the CableCam. The CableCam is often used in land-based sports that are played in
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The 25 men competing in the Olympic marathon swimming 10km final today will barrel into the finish that was designed and created by Omega Timing. The finish pad has an electronic timing and high-speed cameras to measure and record the time and placing of the athletes. The Open Water Gate sits upon two massive floats,
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Ous Mellouli of Tunisia and Eva Risztov of Hungary are the 2012 London Olympics Games marathon swimming champions. Both athletes swam courageous, gutsy swims and they deserve the global accolades coming their way. While they did not swim together, they did swim under similar conditions in nearly identical water temperatures in a carefully marked course
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The men’s Olympic marathon swim gold medalists are quite remarkable. First there was Maarten van der Weijden who won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not only was his athletic victory dramatic, so too was his life story. van der Weijden remains the only Olympic gold medalist in history to have captured gold
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With the conclusion of the Olympic marathon swim at the 2012 London Olympic Games, there were several surprises and positive outcomes that resulted. 1. Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia (1:49:55.1) powered to an Olympic victory, giving Tunisia and Africa its first Olympic marathon swimming gold. His participation is also adequate evidence that open water swimming does
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Oussama Mellouli made two communities happy with his gold medal marathon swim victory in the Serpentine today: his native country of Tunisia and his adopted USC (University of Southern California) family in America. His brilliant strategy throughout the 10,000m swim combined with his powerful strokes on the last two loops led to a dominant victory
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Ous Mellouli Wins The Olympic Marathon Swim WOWSA, Serpentine, London. In a brilliant strategy that played to his strengths, Ous Mellouli swam away from the field to capture his second Olympic gold medal in today’s Olympic marathon swim in the Serpentine. Thomas Lurz captured the silver with young Richard Weinberger holding off Spyros Gianniotis for
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Ivan Enderica Ochoa (#23) is Ecuador’s man at today’s Olympic marathon swim. He trains in Cuenca high up at 2,400 meters in the Andean Mountains. He will swim proudly and quickly in the six 1.6km loops around the Serpentine. Many of the parents and close friends of the 25 male swimmers are gathering in a
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